Company

Number  Stores &

Countries

Pledges

Single Use Plastics Eliminated

Wendy's

6,828 Restaurants in 31 Countries

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UK Launch in 2021

2026 Goals:

• Optimize customer-facing packaging & transition to sustainable options including items that have a higher recycled content

• Use fewer raw materials

• Adhere to an established restricted substances list

• Items are recyclable, compostable or reusable, and are sourced from areas that do not contribute to deforestation

• Canada:  moving from plastic salad bags to paper & from plastic stir sticks to birch wood stir 
  sticks.

• Cups (PP5, Paper/PE)

• Lids  (PET1, PP5, PS6)

• Straws 

• Clamshells (PET1)

• Trays (PP5)

• Cutlery (PS6)

• Carry Bags (HDPE2)

Burger King  (RBI)

18,838 Restaurants in 100+ Countries

• RBI Committed to providing all guest packaging from renewable, recycled, or certified sources by 2025

• Burger King currently requires suppliers to source approved fiber-based packaging from certified or recycled sources, globally.

India: Legal ban

• Cups (PP5, Paper/PE)

• Lids  (PP5, PS6)

• Straws 

• Clamshells (PET1)

• Cutlery (PS6)

• Carry Bags (HDPE2)

McDonalds

38,000+ Restaurants in 101 Countries

• By 2025, 100% of guest packaging will come from renewable, recycled or certified sources.

• By 2025, recycle guest packaging in 100% of McDonald’s restaurants.

• India: Legal ban

• France: Legal ban on plastic lids & cutlery

• Taiwan: Switching to paper/wood

• Latin America: No plastic salad plates

• Sweden: All plastic packaging removed by 2022

• No Plastic Straws: UK, China, Australia, Austria, Ireland

• Cups (PP5, Paper/PE)

• Lids  (PP5, PS6)

• Straws 

• Spoon (PP5)

Popeyes  (RBI)

3,400 Restaurants in 25+ Countries

• RBI Committed to providing all guest packaging from renewable, recycled, or certified sources by 2025

• 2021: Popeyes is working towards  requiring suppliers to source approved fiber-based packaging from certified or recycled sources, globally.

None Found

• Cups (EPS Foam, PP5, Paper/PE)

• Lids  (PS6)

• Straws 

• Cutlery (PS6)

• Carry Bags (HDPE2)

Chic-fil A

2600+ Restaurants in US & Canada

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Through material development and market testing, Chick-fil-A is thoughtfully searching for sustainable design solutions that are recyclable, compostable or contain recycled content – starting with new bowls.

None Found

• Cups (EPS Foam,  Paper/PE)

• Lids  (PP5, PS6)

• Straws 

• Clamshells (PET1)

• Cutlery (PS6)

• Carry Bags (HDPE2)

Subway

41,000 Restaurants in 103 Countries

• We aim to design our functional packaging with reusability, recyclability and end-of-life as the top considerations.

• We continue to look for ways to increase the recycled content, recyclability, degradability and compostability of our packaging where feasible and cost effective.

• No Plastics Straws (Canada)

• Cups (PP5, Paper/PE)

• Lids  (PS6)

• Bowls & Lids ( PP5)

• Straws 

• Cutlery (PS6)

• Carry Bags (HDPE2)

• Salad Bowl & Lid: Currently the salad bowl and lid are made from 25% recycled PET plastic bottles and can be recycled where facilities exist.

Starbucks

32,000+ Restaurants in 80 Countries

• By end of 2020, eliminate single-use plastic straws globally. Goal revised to end of 2021.

• Commitment to shift to more reusable packaging as well as more fully recyclable and compostable packaging.

• India: Legal ban

• Asia: 2020 phase out of plastic straws began, including Japan, Indonesia and Thailand. 

• Cups (PP5, Paper/PE)

• Lids  (PP5)

• Trays (PP5)

• Straws 

Taco Bell
(Yum Brands)

7,427 Restaurants in 31 Countries

• Taco Bell claims that their PP5 cups and lids are recyclable. 

• By 2025, in Taco Bell restaurants across the globe, the we aim to make all consumer-facing packaging recyclable, compostable or reusable. PFAS, Phthalates and BPA will be removed from all consumer-facing packaging materials.

• 2022: Yum! will accelerate efforts to remove Styrofoam and Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) globally by 2022 across all KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell locations.

• No Plastic Straws: Romania, Moldova

• Cups (PP5, Paper/PE)

• Lids  (PP5)

• Straws 

• Cutlery (PS6)

• Trays (PP5)

KFC
(Yum Brands)

25,000+ Restaurants in 145+ Countries

• By 2025, all plastic-based, consumer-facing packaging will be recoverable or reusable.

• 2022: Yum! will accelerate efforts to remove Styrofoam and Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) globally by 2022 across all KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell locations.

• India: Legal Ban

• No Plastic Straws: Singapore, France, South Africa, Moldova, & Romania

• Cups (Paper/PE)

• Lids  (PP5, PET1)

• Straws 

• Cutlery (PS6)

• Bowls  (PP5, EPS6)

• Carry Bags (HDPE2)